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– Dave Davison is the subject of Project: New Man, a partly secret joint venture of the U.S. Government and the Fortress Foundation, a private sector non-profit philanthropic organization dedicated to public defense and scientific research. Dave has the dual role of being part of the research project and at the same time being groomed by the Government as a public protector in the Five Lakes Megalopolis area. Dave has a dark past which he hoped was dead and buried but in his first public adventure he confronts his past and an old partner head on in “The Mall Massacres”. Legacy Comics 1991 Black and White 32 page Independent Comic: Project: New Man #1is FREE to read in this very Web Browser!

– His actual identity is as much a mystery as what drives him. He calls himself Ebenezer Baal, and he is The Haunted Man but he intends for misery to have company as he in turn haunts Dave Davison a.k.a New Man. We find out in this origin tale Dave was not always a hero, and it seems his past is easily as shady as the criminals he now pursues! Co-Starring The Thunder Hawks! The backup story from Legacy Comics 1991 Black and White 64 page Independent Comic: Humants #1! FREE to read in this very Web Browser!

– Dave Davison A.K.A New Man goes out for a morning jog only to return to the Moriah Building under a full scale attack from Cyber-Tech! Also featuring Bearcat, and the Thunder Hawks! Featuring lots of never before published material! 32 action packed pages FREE to read in this very Web Browser!

– We tie up a lot of loose ends in this issue as The Haunted Man concludes. We find out the true identity of Ebeneezer Baal, see Bearcat in action again, see the abduction of Fawn and Nick, Cyber-Tech escapes plus a special secret surprise guest-star! Yeah! This one has it all!Featuring lots of never before published and some ALL-NEW material! 32 action packed pages FREE to read in this very Web Browser!

– High crime rates, higher gas prices, inflation and garbage strikes, are one thing but the recent unnatural storms have the residents Five Lakes Megalopolis rattled. Then the appearance of unusual individuals wielding supernatural powers precede the coming of a walking, flying nightmare! His name is Megeddon, Dark Lord of the Hecati and his chief servant, the powerhouse called Devastax! Krystal McKliston is an investigative reporter looking into these mysteries as she learns there are “Humants Among Us!”The lead story from Legacy Comics 1991 Black and White 64 page Independent Comic: Humants #1! FREE to read in this very Web Browser!

– The Herald, Magistar, and Man Ark must enter into deadly battle with Megeddon, the Dark Lord of the Hecati and his chief servant, the powerhouse called Devastax! Their goal: no less than total world destruction! Krystal McCliston, investigative reporter, tries to capture the action on video while dodging falling debris. She later comfronts a new villain: The Tower! Janeta Rosebud meets Omni Spawn and things will never again be the same! The lead story from Legacy Comics 1992 Black and White 48 page Independent Comic: Humants #2! FREE to read in this very Web Browser!

– Omnispawn ushers in yet another Humant: The Savage Chaosta! Also having survived their first encounter with the evil Dark Lord Mageddon, the Khosmotic Warriors have banded together and rented an old warehouse to use as a headquarters and training facility. Featuring lots of never before published material! 32 action packed pages FREE to read in this very Web Browser!

– This issue features the all out war between the Humants and the Renegade Humants! It's action from cover to cover as Freazie White, Jr. writes and does finished pencils over Mark Poe's layouts and we introduce a new inker, Paul Schulze! Featuring lots of never before published material! 32 action packed pages FREE to read in this very Web Browser!

– What happens when you try to administer first aid to an unconscious Humant? Well, in the case of Chaosta things could get pretty scary when she wakes up and thinks she is still battling the Renegade Humants! Man Ark and Sojourner find a lot of trouble for their efforts! Plus: Much More by Freazie White, Jr. new inker, Anthony Grayand Billy Leavell with Letters and Edits! PLUS: An offbeat Bearcat backup tale! By Mark Poe, Freazie White, Jr., Mark Alan Lester and Billy Leavell! Featuring lots of never before published material! 32 action packed pages FREE to read in this very Web Browser!

– Tess is a young lady who is a living tesseract. She comes from another dimension and in our dimension she can teleport herself or just about anything else just about any where. She manifests the power in a number of ways other than teleportation and she has a cute little 4th dimensional dog with a very high I.Q. named Nostradamus. In short: we are 3D beings, Tess and Nostradamus are 4D beings.Plus: Much More by Greg Legat writer/creator, Mark Poe with pencils, letters and colors! and J. Adam Walters handling inking embellishment. Featuring never before published material! 32 action packed pages FREE to read in this very Web Browser!

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Senator John McCain showed up at the Republican Convention last night. He did a great job with his acceptance speech, and actually came across likable and real. I’ve never cared much for him but I was impressed with him last night. But the show stealer this week was Governor Sarah Palin. This may be the first time in history that a Vice Presidential canidate has gotten the Presidential canidate vote. I’ve already heard some folks say they would vote for McCain because of her.

So now the Conventions are over and it’s down to business. Only 2 months left before the election. Do you know who you will vote for President of the United States of America?

Hurricane Hanna is still a Tropical Storm and expected to increase in strength again and possibly run up the East Coast maybe making landfall in South Carolina. Hurricane Ike which was at Category 4 has dropped to Cat. 3 and expected to falll down to Cat. 2 by the time it hits southern Florida next week. Tropical Storm Josephine is window shopping in the Atlantic, just cruising around. 😉

The image you see here is from 1986 for the title ElfTrek, a two issue mini- series I did with Marcus Lusk and Greg Legat at Marcus’s Dimension Graphics. This was during the Black & White Boom brought on by Eastman and Laird’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles initial success. Marcus had already had success with his one-shot Secret Doors. Both of those titles sold several thousand copies before the Black & White Boom went bust. I have a lot of fund memories from doing these two issues and I just got permission from both Marcus and Greg to post those two issues on MegaComicsGroup.com. That’s another one for the forth coming Mega Tales coming soon!

It’s Hump Day, as the radio D.J.’s like to call it! 🙂 Which of course signifies that magical moment during the work week when we reverently pause and solemnly acknowledge that we are half way to the weekend! Yay! 😉

In addition to today’s Mega Tales # 1 update, we updated the cover and inside front cover. Why? Well, it seems the other day neither were quite finished in time for posting, but close enough so as not to be late. So now they have been finished and appear in all their colorful glory! See if you spot the changes.

We mentioned some changes in our site organization like a landing page for all the comics sites: Well, we are working on it. It will be something similar to our new ads which we posted a few blogs back. If you want to see a sneak preview just scroll down the page a little.

Also we are working on a new comic title! That’s right, as if we didn’t have enough to keep up with now, our ol’ pal Marcus Lusk, formerly of Dimension Graphics’Secret Doors and Elf Trek and more recently of Tales From The Bog fame has graciously agreed to let us host his Bog Web Comics! Marcus is working on a design layout for the pages even as these words are being inscribed over the electronic either! Stay tuned for more on that! Which of course means ye ol’ Mindless Mega Minions we’ll have to redo that landing page, and this blog’s header and…oh well, it will be worth it! Count on it! 😀

But enough of this frivolity! Now it’s Tess Time!

Mega Tales # 1, Page 1:

Here we go! Page 1 of the very first story of Tess and The Lost Legacy Of Ursa Major. As we wrote before this was originally done back in 1987 but never published anywhere until now in 2009 22 years later. The art has been archived in Mark’s closet all this time! It has changed very little from the original. We scanned it all in cleaned it up and digitally re-lettered it, added some digital color and voilà: new web comics of Tess for 2009.

This story was originally plotted by Greg Legat and Mark Poe sitting around the kitchen table at Greg’s parent’s house on a few Saturday afternoons. Once we had it all written down, Mark headed back to his small studio office in his house and from his drawing board whipped out 32 pages of pencils for the first installment. We then sent it off to J. Adam Walters for inking. Somewhere along the line we decided to make it a 2 part story. So what we are beginning today is part one which will conclude Mega Tales #1.

Mega Tales #2 will feature the conclusion of this story which, to our knowledge and ironclad memories, was never plotted before. 😉 I’m sure we had an idea of where we were going as we finished up #1, but when funding to publish the first story fell off, we shelved everything.

Unfortunately, even though the art was kept up with, some of the other materials, like the original script, plot synopsis and character notes have been…well…misplaced. We are diligently searching for those so we can tell you all about our cast. Worse case scenario: we’ll redo the cast list from memory, which might be an adventure in and of itself after 22 years! gulp! 😉 Stay tuned!

Wednesday already?! 🙂 WOW! We are half way to the weekend! These Holiday Monday’s make the week fly by! 😉

Nothing much more to say so…it’s Tess Time!

Mega Tales # 1, Page 11:

Welcome back! After a little time off we are ready to go with page 11! This is as good a good time as any for a recap just to remind you of where we are in the story line. If you would like a quick visual catch-me-up, check out our archives.

We opened our tale with a star ship bursting into our Solar System occupied by aliens we have yet to hear or have a glimpse of. On Tess’s Starship which orbits the earth, Dr. Anamanda Johnson while monitoring phenomena both near and far is the first to spot the alien ship. The ship launches a shuttle which lands in Peru. After a brief analysis she alerts Tess and Capt. Theo McClendon. Tess does not recognize the vessel as being freindly or of any origin she is aware of. She quickly formulates a plan to investigate sending Theo to Dr. Quillin’s house to pick up Nostradamus who often helps out in such situations. Nosy and Theo head out in their custom designed and built Auto Gyro for Peru. Tess and Anamanda cross reference everything they can find in the ships database for any hint of the ships origin then conference and decide it best for Tess to teleport directly to the site where the aliens landed to investigate.

As we return now with page 11 we get our first distant view of the aliens and get to listen into their conversation. Friday we’ll see exactly what we are dealing with here. Don’t miss it!

It’s mid-week already! 🙂 We are well on our way this week and halfway to the promised land of the weekend 😉

Like us you have a lot to do today, we’re sure, so let’s not wait another minute. Page 14 of Mega Tales #1 is all warmed up and ready to go! So like the guy at the amusement park says, “Climb aboard, sit down, shut up and hang on!” 😀

Mega Tales # 1, Page 14:

Remember what we said Friday? “Things are not always as they appear.” Well, that works across the board. Our alien, bear pirates are finding out first hand how true that saying is. Having missed their targeted time period of 500 years ago, now they must deal with our modern technology. A squad of fighter jets are far more threatening than a native war party chucking spears. 😉

This page was a bit more of a challenge than the last few. There was a lot more dialog, which by the way, ace scripter, Stephen Greg Legat, did a real bang-up job on. But with more characters and more dialog means less space for word balloons. Mark Poe, our surrogate letterer, figured it out, though it took a bit of trial and error to accomplish. The color was not as difficult as Mark anticipated. There is a lot of color but essentially the same colors used in each panel, so that helped shorten the process a little.

Hope you enjoyed today’s page and will join us again Friday for page 14. CU then! 🙂

Yes, we were late updating this morning. This page required some art modifications where the Auto Gyro is concerned and was a little tricky to re-letter also, so it required more time to finish. There were a lot of interruptions also, which is not unusual at this time of year. Our workload increases due to Spring/Summer activities such as yard work and garden work, the kids are out of school and special events like Comic Convention Art Jams require more attention. All this and much more has caused us to get behind our already stressful schedule, so much so this week, that we will not be able to have a new page Friday as we had intended. We’ll try to get back on schedule next week. Please bear with us. Thanks for your patience and support! 🙂

But enough of this frivolity! Now it’s Tess Time!

Mega Tales # 1, Page 16:

Page 16 is here! We have reached the halfway point of this first issue. Nostradamus and Theo are now on the scene. It seems Nosy has seen these guys before. Remember, Nosy is actually not a dog at all, but another fourth dimensional creature somewhat like Tess. He was a “gun-runner” in his home dimension, and came to this universe to escape clients. He is capable of transporting objects as Tess does, and is able to communicate telepathically. So it’s likely Nosy has had problems with these alien Teddy Bear Pirates before or at least heard of them.

Next: Page 17 will introduce another character into the story line, one who seems to always be a thorn in our hero’s sides. Stay tuned to find out who.

FREE Comic Book Day is tomorrow! 😀 Our ol’ pal Marcus Lusk, formerly of Dimension Graphics’Secret Doors and Elf Trek and more recently of Tales From The Bog fame will be at Comics EnvySaturday, May 1st from 11 AM until 4 PM. Also appearing will be Evan Dahm, writer/artist for Rice Boy and Raven Perez, creator of Raven’s Dojo. The artists will have copies of their books own hand and will gladly sign a copy, 2 or 10 for you! Who knows? They might even do a few sketches given half a chance! So if you are in the area or planing a Road Trip Saturday, head on over to Ashville, North Carolina and have some fun! We’re told, by Marcus, that Comics Envy is one of the most fun shops you’ll find! Check out their web site, to get an idea of what we mean!

Mega Tales # 1 printed edition will be available next week from Indy Planet. We’ll give you a direct link as soon as we have it. Stay tuned!

Sorry we don’t have more for you today. We’ll try to make it up to you next week. We appreciate each and every fan of our site and comics and we are working hard to make improvements. So hang in their, web wayfarers! There’s much more to come! Enjoy your weekend! 😀

Any questions or comments? All are welcome.

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Archives Spotlight

We continue our look back at our previously posted web comics. We’ll be looking at all that’s come before with this feature and adding new comments as well. This month we are reviewing Project: New Man! Stay tuned to this section Monday, Wednesday and Fridays for more news on our archived titles.

Project: New Man #1 – Page 14 –New Man faces a situation now! In times past, in another life, it would have been easy, but today he has to try to save a life and somehow bring this madness to a close. But the odds of that happening do not look good at all right now.

Mark’s Remarks:

One of my favorite pages. I just love single panel pages! This one serves to stop the action so the reader, like the main character, can pause and reflect on the latest revelation of who this psychotic killer is.

On another note: Freazie did a great job scripting this issue as he did with all our comics. My story plot was rough to say the least, but Freazie always knew how to add a great amount of depth to every plot. I can’t take credit for all the plotting either. Freazie and I stayed on the phone for hours hashing out these story lines. We had a lot of fun and ran up some MEGA long distance phone bills! Ouch! 😉

Welcome to Friday’s Mega Comics Group Updates!

The Game of Life – Chapter 2

The deadline to contribute to Alpha-Omega #200 has come and gone. We actually had to ask for a one day extension to make it. That was no problem and we did make it the next day then had to revise a couple of things after the fact. But it’s all good! Now, we wait for the CM to compile all the submissions and announce the day of availability for purchase on Amazon.com.

On top of the A-O deadline we discovered some updates which had to be done to the Mega Tales web pages and some of the art files for a revised printing for that book, which we had not planned to do until after PNM #3. So due to that little unexpected event as well as all that work we put in on the ‘trib we have had no time for revisions to Project: NewMan # 3 pages.

This week we’ll show you the next chapter in The Game of Life. We mentioned last time how Billy Leavell was the one behind the initial idea of The Game of Life A-O Challenge story. Billy started it in Chapter One which Mark inked. Mark added the Prologue featuring his Archangel character which then ran in the pages of A-O before Chapter One. Mark finished up his inks on Chapter One and went right into plotting, penciling and scripting Chapter Two. Steven Mark Shipley was to ink the chapter. Steve did his usual great job. Mark and Steve ended up working on a few of Steve’s Pizazz Comics for Small Press. Steve had a book called Peacemakers. Mark inked some of Steve’s work on that book.

This second chapter in the Game of Life introduced more characters into the storyline. Following Billy’s lead and sticking with the chess game theme, Mark dreamed up Black King, Black Queen, Black Rook and Black Bishop.By the end of the chapter he also introduced the White Pawn as a sidekick for the White Knight.

Mark said he really enjoyed working on this chapter and it was one of his first attempts at doing the full script, pencils and lettering himself. He says he was less than impressive with his lettering and others agreed with him on that. Most however liked what he had done with the script and pencils. Several A-O artists used the Black Rook in illustrations on the covers and elsewhere. That was one of Mark’s favorites too, inspired, more or less, by his favorite comic book character, The Thing of the Fantastic Four.

This was the last time Mark would work on the characters form the Game of Life. It was up to others now to continue the story. Up next, in Chapter 3. His ol’ pal Freazie White Jr. was to plot, script, and pencil and fellow A-O buddy, who Mark had worked with on other projects, Ralph Ellis Miley was to ink. We’ll show you those pages next week. And maybe we’ll show you Mark’s ‘trib cover for A-O #200 which featured new renderings by him of the White Knight and the Black Rook as well as some other A-O characters.

We mentioned the quick revisions which were done for Mega Tales # 1 earlier. The storyline of Tess, the Living Tesseract which was done way back in 1987 right after Marks’s work on ElfTrek, a two issue mini- series he did with Marcus Lusk and Greg Legat at Marcus’s Dimension Graphics. This was during the Black & White Boom brought on by Eastman and Laird’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles initial success. Marcus had already had success with his one-shot Secret Doors. Both of those titles sold several thousand copies before the Black & White Boom went bust. Mark has always said he had a lot of fond memories from doing these two issues. He got permission from both Marcus and Greg back when he started this website to post those two issues on MegaComicsGroup.com but we have yet to get to it.That might be for a forth coming Mega Tales after the Tess Storyline concludes.

As we have explained before Tess, is short for tesseract which refers to four dimensional geometry. The tesseract, also called an 8-cell or regular octachoron, is the four-dimensional analog of the cube, which is in turn the three dimensional analog of the square. We are basically beings rooted in 3 dimensions. Tess is a 4th dimensional being. Tess is a young lady who is a living tesseract. She comes from another dimension and in our dimension she can teleport herself or just about anything else just about any where. She manifests the power in a number of ways other than teleportation and she has a cute little 4th dimensional dog with a very high I.Q. named Nostradamus. The book was originally to be published by Dimension Graphics but unfortunately never saw print. So we brought it back to debut in the first 2 issues of Mega Tales. Greg Legat created and wrote Tess while Mark Poe and J. Adam Walters did the art.

We’ll use our Archives Spotlight below to give you a little info on what we’ve been doing on Mega Tales to prep it for a second printing with IndyPlanet and Drive-Thru Comics.

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Archives Spotlight

Archive’s Spotlight is designed to look at all which has come before and add new comments as well. This posting we are reviewing Mega Tales # 1.

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Mega Tales # 1 – As we eluded to earlier, the decision was made to update Mega Tales # 1 for a 2nd Printing. There was not a lot of changes but enough to justify the 2nd Printing designation. To start with we’ve changed the package up a little and streamlined it more in line with our Project: NewMan and Humants25th Anniversary Re-Issues. We’ve also cleaned up the cover art and 7-8 pages of interior art. These were not major changes but we think we’ll keep you guessing as to what changes were made. You just about have to have a copy of the 1st printing and the 2nd side by side to note the differences. It will be a few days before the fine folks at IndyPlanet get the 2nd Printing online, but in the meantime the 1st Printing can still be ordered. So who knows, you might have a collectors item if you have one of the few 1st Printings of Mega Tales #1 Use the link below and go get it, pal!

Check back next week for more pages inPNM #3 as we continue updating these books for printing with Ka-Blam Comic Book Printing and digital sales at IndyPlanet as well as DriveThru Comics.

Remember, we have digital editions at IndyPlanet and DriveThru Comics RIGHT NOW! You can still download Project: NewMan #1 and Humants # 1 for absolutely FREE!Project: NewMan # 2 and Humants # 2 can be downloaded now, for immediate gratification, for a mere 99ç each! And if you want actual hard copy prints the Indyplanet will sale those to you for only $2.99 each! And we also have Mega Tales #1 featuring the debut of the other long ago project Mark and Greg Legat did called Tess, The Living Tesseract.

What are you waiting for? Go grab some Mega Comics Group / Legacy Comics right now! Check out the cover link to the left here which will take you to Indy Planet. Here’s the link if you had rather go to DriveThru Comics.